8 Under-The-Radar Vegetarian Celebrities

PETA is promoting a round-up of “25 celebrities who won’t be eating turkey on Thanksgiving.” It’s mostly the usual suspects: Alicia Silverstone, Woody Harrelson, Russel Brand, Natalie Portman — the same famous vegetarians and vegans you see mentioned over and over again in magazines and entertainment talk shows. Since it is Thanksgiving, and I see no reason not to keep things light and fluffy around here today, I decided to seek out vegetarian celebrities who are more low-key about not eating meat — folks unlikely to grace awful PETA ads, write personal essays about why they went vegetarian or dole out 5-minute veggie recipes in Better Homes & Garden. And here we are: 8 celebrities whose vegetarianism flies under the radar (or is even a little surprising).

1. Vincent Kartheiser

2. Betty White:

White has been a vegetarian for almost three decades — people say she turned Bob Barker onto animal welfare issues. Huh. Maybe her vegetarianism isn’t news to anyone but me. Did you know this?

3. Anna Paquin

4. Alan Cumming

Cumming went from vegetarianism to veganism earlier this year, tweeting at the time: “That’s it. I was toying with going the whole hog to veganism and now I see Mike Tyson is the new Vegan posterboy! Sold! Get ye back, seitan!”

5. Jessica Paré (aka Megan Draper on Mad Men)

6. Vanilla Ice

The rapper went vegetarian a few years ago because of his high cholesterol. Which is, like, the least hardcore thing ever. But awesome. Good job, Vanilla Ice.